The Wider Image: A look inside the "heart of society" for Iraq's Shi'ites
Abdul Hussain Jassim Al Aboudi, 60, a student at al-Gharawiya school run by al-Hawza al-Ilmiyya, holds a book, in Najaf, Iraq, August 13, 2017. For more than 1,000 years, the al-Hawza al-Ilmiyya in southern Baghdad has been giving religious instructions to thousands of Shi'ite Muslims to help them become clerics. REUTERS/Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen SEARCH "HAWZA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
